Time-resolved thermal mirror technique with top-hat cw laser excitation

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 12214-12219

  Astrath, Francine B G ^a   Astrath, Nelson G C ^a   Shen, Jun ^a   Zhou, Jianqin ^a   Malacarne, Luis C ^b   Pedreira, P R B ^b   Baesso, Mauro L ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER EXCITATION; MIRRORS; PHASE SHIFT; PROBES; SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ADDITIONAL PHASE SHIFTS; ELECTRICAL FIELD; EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS; FRESNEL DIFFRACTION THEORY; NANO-SCALE SURFACES; OPTICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE DISPLACEMENT; THEORETICAL MODELING;

LASER MIRRORS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LENSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 49149111219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012214     Document Type: Article

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